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Definitions

• Embodiments herein relate to power control in a wireless communications network.
• embodiments herein relate to a radio unit and a method therein for controlling power levels of spatially separated transceivers connected to the radio unit via corresponding antenna ports.
• wireless devices also known as mobile stations, terminals, and/or User Equipment, UEs
• communicate via a Radio-Access Network, RAN with one or more core networks.
• the RAN covers a geographical area which is divided into cells, with each cell being served by a base station, e.g. a radio base station, RBS, or network node, which in some networks may also be called, for example, a "NodeB", "eNodeB” or "eNB”.
• a cell is a geographical area where radio coverage is provided by the radio base station at a base station site or an antenna site in case the antenna and the radio base station are not collocated.
• One radio base station may serve one or more cells.
• a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, UMTS is a third generation mobile communication system, which evolved from the second generation, 2G, Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM.
• the UMTS terrestrial radio-access network, UTRAN is essentially a RAN using wideband code-division multiple access, WCDMA, and/or High-Speed Packet Access, HSPA, to communicate with user equipment.
• WCDMA wideband code-division multiple access
• HSPA High-Speed Packet Access
• UMTS UMTS
• a controller node such as a radio network controller, RNC, or a base station controller, BSC, which supervises and coordinates various activities of the plural base stations connected thereto.
• RNCs are typically connected to one or more core networks.
• the Evolved Packet System comprises the Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio-Access Network, E-UTRAN, also known as the Long-Term Evolution, LTE, radio access, and the Evolved Packet Core, EPC, also known as System Architecture Evolution, SAE, core network.
• E-UTRAN/LTE is a variant of a 3GPP radio-access technology wherein the radio base station nodes are directly connected to the EPC core network rather than to RNCs.
• the functions of a RNC are distributed between the radio base station nodes, e.g. eNodeBs in LTE, and the core network.
• the Radio- Access Network, RAN of an EPS has an essentially flat architecture comprising radio base station nodes without reporting to RNCs.
• An indoor wireless communication network may be referred to as a distributed system, since it often comprises several spatially separated transceivers, e.g. antennas or radio heads, with low transmit power that are geographically distributed throughout an indoor environment, such as, for example, across hallways and offices on several different floors of a building.
• transceivers e.g. antennas or radio heads
• low transmit power that are geographically distributed throughout an indoor environment, such as, for example, across hallways and offices on several different floors of a building.
• a typical deployment may be around one transceiver every 25 meters, or one transceiver for every 625 square meters.
• the object is achieved by a method performed by a radio unit for controlling power levels of spatially separated transceivers connected to the radio unit via corresponding antenna ports.
• Each transceiver is capable of performing measurements on uplink transmissions from wireless devices in a wireless communication network.
• the radio unit receives measurements from o the transceivers on received uplink transmissions from the wireless devices.
• the radio unit determines, for each transceiver, a load based on how many wireless devices that have the transceiver as the transceiver with the most relevant measurement for its uplink transmissions. Further, the radio unit controls a power level of at least one first transceiver based on at least one of the determined loads for the transceivers.
• the object is achieved by a radio unit for controlling power levels of spatially separated transceivers connected to the radio unit via corresponding antenna ports.
• Each transceiver is capable of performing measurements on uplink transmissions from wireless devices in a wireless
• the radio unit comprises a receiver and a processor.
• the receiver is configured to receive measurements from the transceivers on received uplink transmissions from the wireless devices
• the processor is configured to determine a load based on how many wireless devices that have the transceiver as the transceiver with the most relevant measurement for its uplink transmissions, and control a power level5 of at least one first transceiver based on at least one of the determined loads for the transceivers.
• the object is achieved by a computer program, comprising instructions which, when executed on at least one0 processor, cause the at least one processor to carry out the method described above.
• the object is achieved by a carrier containing the computer program described above, wherein the carrier is one of an electronic signal, optical signal, radio signal, or computer readable storage medium.
• the radio unit is able to determine a load per transceiver in 5 terms of number of wireless devices that perceive a transceiver as dominant.
• the radio unit may then control the power levels of the transceivers which have low determined loads, for example, by turning them off or reducing their output power.
• the energy consumption of the spatially separated transceivers in the wireless communications network may be reduced. Also, by turning transceivers off or reducing their output power, o interference caused by the spatially separated transceivers in the wireless
• FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram illustrating embodiments a radio unit in a wireless communications network
• Figure 2 is a flowchart depicting embodiments of a method in a radio unit
• 5 Figure 3 is another schematic block diagram illustrating embodiments a radio unit in a wireless communications network
• Figure 4 is another flowchart depicting embodiments of a method in a radio unit
• Figure 5 is a schematic block diagram depicting embodiments of a radio unit.
• Figure 1 shows an example of a wireless communications network 100 in
• the wireless communications system 100 may also be referred to as an indoor wireless communication network, since it is advantageously deployed in an indoor environment.
• the wireless communications system 100 comprises a radio unit 101 connected to a number of transceivers 110-119. Each transceiver 1 10-1 19 is connected to a o separate antenna port a-j, respectively, of the radio unit 101 .
• the connection between each transceiver 1 10-1 19 and its corresponding antenna port of the radio unit 101 is a wired or wireless connection.
• the radio unit 101 and the transceivers 1 10-1 19 may be said to provide coverage within the cell 105, and each transceiver 1 10-1 19 to provide coverage within its own coverage area, as indicated by the dashed circles in Figure 1 .
• the 5 radio unit 101 which is also be referred to as a baseband unit or digital unit, may be connected to a core network of a communications network, such as, for example, a core network of an outdoor, or macro, wireless communications network as described above.
• each transceiver 1 10-1 19 is an antenna and/or radio head further capable of detecting and measure uplink, UL, transmissions from wireless0 devices, such as, e.g. the wireless device 121 in Figure 1 , located within their coverage area.
• wireless0 devices such as, e.g. the wireless device 121 in Figure 1
• indoor wireless communication networks do not allow separate cells or data flows per transceiver, and a pre-requisite to using separate cells in indoor wireless communications networks is the possibility to detect and measure uplink transmission from wireless devices located within the coverage of the indoor wireless communications5 network.
• one way of evaluation the received power or signal strength of such wireless devices at the transceivers 1 10-1 19 is to include a unique, small frequency offset in the Local Oscillator, LO, of the transceivers 1 10-1 19, such that signals from each transceiver 1 10-1 19 may be separated and dealt with individually in the radio unit 101 .
• Another way of evaluating the signal strength of such wireless devices at the transceivers 1 10-1 19 is to perform digital filtering in the radio unit 101 on selected uplink transmission signals of the transceivers 1 10-1 19, for example, before all the transceiver signals are summed in the radio unit 101 .
• the wireless devices in the wireless communications5 network 100 in Figure 1 are e.g. any kind of wireless devices such as mobile phones, cellular phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), smart phones, tablets, sensors or actuators with wireless communication capabilities, sensors or actuators connected to or equipped with a wireless device, Machine Devices (MD), Machine- Type-Communication (MTC) devices, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication devices, Customer-Premises Equipments (CPEs), Laptop-Mounted Equipments (LMEs), Laptop-Embedded
• MD Machine Devices
• MTC Machine- Type-Communication
• M2M Machine-to-Machine
• CPEs Customer-Premises Equipments
• LMEs Laptop-Mounted Equipments
• transceivers that are located far away from wireless devices that are transmitting or receiving data in the wireless communication network, may not effectively contribute to the data transmission. Hence, these transceivers may, for these periods of time, be considered to be inefficient from an energy consumption point of view, and also unnecessarily contribute to interference towards other cells in the wireless
• a radio unit capable of determining the number of wireless devices that consider a certain transceiver as dominant, i.e. the transceiver with the most relevant measurement, such as, for example, highest received power, highest signal-to-noise-ratio or highest signal quality, for the uplink transmissions of the wireless device.
• This enables the radio unit to determine a load per transceiver, i.e. in terms of number of wireless devices that perceive a transceiver as dominant, and control the power levels of the transceivers which have low determined loads.
• the energy consumption of these transceivers in the wireless communications network may be reduced, as well as, any interference caused by these transceivers in the wireless communications network.
• each transceiver 1 10-1 19 is capable of performing 5 measurements on uplink transmissions from wireless devices in a wireless
• Figure 2 illustrates an example of actions or operations which may be taken by the radio unit 101 .
• the method may comprise the following actions.
• the radio unit 101 first receives measurements from the transceivers 1 10-1 19 on received uplink transmissions from the wireless devices. This means that each of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 signal their measurements on received UL transmissions from the wireless devices currently located within their individual coverage areas to the radio unit
• the measurements referred to above are received power measurements (e.g. received UL power or signal strength values), signal-to-noise-ratio measurements, or signal quality measurements. It is here assumed that the radio unit 101 and/or transceivers 1 10-1 19 is able to detect and estimate the received UL power per transceiver 1 10-1 19 per wireless device in the wireless communications network 100.
• the transceivers 1 10-1 19 are antennas and/or radio heads.
• each of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 is located at a specific geographical position relative to the other transceivers 1 10-1 19.
• the radio unit 101 determines, for each transceiver 1 10-1 19, a load based on how many wireless devices that have the transceiver as the transceiver with the most relevant measurement for its uplink transmissions.
• the most relevant measurement 30 of a wireless device is the measurement which has the highest path gain, e.g. in terms of highest received power, highest signal-to-noise-ratio, highest signal quality
• the radio unit 101 may determine the number of wireless devices that consider a certain transceiver as dominant, e.g. having the highest received power or highest path gain.
• the radio unit 101 is informed about the load of each transceiver 1 10-1 19 in the wireless communications network 100; the load for a transceiver here 5 being the number of wireless devices in the wireless communications network 100 that have the transceiver as its dominant transceiver. Consequently, the radio unit 101 is also informed about which transceivers 1 10-1 19 have a high load in the wireless
• transceiver 100 i.e. a transceiver which many wireless devices in the wireless communications network 100 have as its dominant transceiver, or low load in the o wireless communications network 100, i.e. a transceiver which few or no wireless devices in the wireless communications network 100 have as its dominant transceiver.
• the most relevant measurement may be one or more of: the highest received power, the highest signal-to-noise-ratio, or the highest signal quality.
• 3 ⁇ 4 "x is the vector of the received uplink power values from the wireless device u0 to all transceivers 1 10-1 19 forming the cell 105, such as, for example,
• P r X Ip r* p TM _ p r X j for N number of transceivers.
• the transceiver with the highest received power from a wireless device is considered to be the dominant transceiver for this particular wireless device.
• the load of transceiver i is then defined as the number of wireless devices with transceiver i as its5 dominant transceiver. It should also be noted that the transceiver with highest received power p a from a wireless device also corresponds to the transceiver with the highest path gain 3i.
• the radio unit 101 controls a power level of at least one first transceiver based on at least one of the determined loads for the transceivers 1 10-1 19. This means that the radio unit 101 controls, or at least affects, the energy consumption and possible interference in the wireless communications network 100 based on the determined loads of the
• the radio unit 101 turns off the at least one first transceiver or reduce the output power level for downlink transmissions of the at least one first 5 transceiver. This is performed by the radio unit 101 when a first load criterion is fulfilled.
• the radio unit 101 turns on the at least one first transceiver or increase the output power level for downlink transmissions of the at least one first transceiver. This allows the radio unit 101 to reduce the energy consumption and possible interference in the wireless communications network 100 when 1 o deemed suitable according to a first and second criterion in the radio unit 101 .
• the radio unit 101 also allows the radio unit 101 to not only turn off a transceiver completely, but also reduce the output power of the downlink, DL, transmissions of a transceiver such that the transceiver may still detect wireless devices in the wireless communications network 100.
• the first load criterion is considered fulfilled when the determined load for the at least one first transceiver is equal to or below a first determined threshold. This means that the radio unit 101 may consider turning off, or reducing the output power level for DL transmissions of, a transceiver when the determined load of the
• this allows the radio unit 101 to identify possible transceivers that the radio unit 101 may use for reducing the energy consumption and possible interference in the wireless
• communications network 100 i.e. transceivers that have a low load in the wireless communications network 100.
• the second load criterion is considered fulfilled when the determined load for the at least one first transceiver is above the first determined threshold.
• the radio unit 101 may consider turning on or increasing the output power level for DL transmissions of a transceiver when the determined load of the transceiver exceeds the first threshold. This allows the radio unit
• the radio unit 101 may no longer use for reducing the energy consumption and possible interference in the wireless communications network 100, i.e. transceivers that no longer have a low load in the wireless communications network 100.
• the first load criterion is considered fulfilled when the determined load for at least one second transceiver located adjacent to the at least one first transceiver is equal to or below a second determined threshold. This means that the radio unit 101 may also consider the determined loads of neighboring transceivers of a 5 transceiver when determining whether or not it should turn off or reduce output power level for DL transmissions of the transceiver.
• the radio unit 101 may not be able to use this transceiver for reception of transmissions from wireless device and wireless devices attempting to access the wireless communications network 100 via the transceiver, e.g. performing a o random access attempt, may thus fail.
• the determined load of adjacent or neighboring transceivers may be included in the consideration whether or not it should turn off or reduce output power level for DL transmissions of the transceiver. For example, if the determined load is high for the neighboring transceivers, this will indicate that there is a high probability that a wireless device may move into the coverage area of the 5 transceiver. However, if the determined load is low for the neighboring transceivers, this will indicate that there is a low probability that a wireless device may move into the coverage area of the transceiver.
• the second load criterion is considered fulfilled when the determined load for at least one second transceiver located adjacent to0 the at least one first transceiver is above the second determined threshold.
• the radio unit 101 may further consider the determined loads of neighboring transceivers of a transceiver when determining whether or not it should turn on or increase the output power level for DL transmissions of the transceiver. This allows the radio unit 101 to determine whether there is a high or low probability that a wireless5 device may move into the coverage area of a transceiver that is turned off or has a reduced output power of its DL transmissions.
• the first load criterion is considered fulfilled when the determined load for at least one third transceiver located adjacent to the at least one0 second transceiver is equal to or below a third determined threshold.
• the radio unit 101 may also consider the determined loads of the transceivers being neighbors to the neighboring transceivers of a transceiver when determining whether or not it should turn off or reduce output power level for DL transmissions of the transceiver. This allows the radio unit 101 to determine whether there is a high or low probability that a wireless5 device may move into the coverage area of a transceiver even further.
• the second load criterion is considered fulfilled when the determined load for at least one third transceiver located adjacent to the at least one second transceiver is above the third determined threshold.
• the radio unit 101 may further consider the determined loads of the neighbors of the neighboring transceivers of a transceiver when determining whether or not it should turn on or increase the output power level for DL transmissions of the transceiver. This allows the radio unit 101 to determine whether there is a high or low probability that a wireless device may move into the coverage area of a transceiver that is turned off or has a reduced output power of its DL transmissions even further.
• the first load criterion is considered fulfilled when an estimated loss in relative combined received power of the uplink transmissions from the wireless devices to the transceivers 1 10-1 19 is equal to or below a fourth determined threshold.
• the second load criterion is considered fulfilled when an estimated loss in relative combined received power of the uplink transmissions from the wireless devices to the transceivers 1 10-1 19 is above the fourth determined threshold.
• the radio unit 101 may also consider the relative combined received power when determining whether or not it should turn off or reduce output power level for DL transmissions of the transceiver. This allows the radio unit 101 to refrain from turning a transceiver off, or reduce the output power level for its DL transmissions, when the transceiver provides a significant combined power contribution for transmission from wireless devices for which it is not a dominant transceiver.
• any wireless devices being served by the transceiver, its neighboring transceivers and/or transceivers being neighbors to the neighboring transceivers should not experience a loss in combined gain from these transceivers that is above a fourth determined threshold if the radio unit 101 turns off the transceiver or reduces the output power level for the transceivers DL transmissions.
• the radio unit 1 01 may determine a total received power, P", according to Eq. 2: prx
• ⁇ is the number of transceivers.
• the radio unit 101 may determine that the relative received power loss per wireless device for the transceiver /( according to Eq. 3:
• the radio unit 101 may determine whether the relative received power loss is below a fourth determined threshold.
• the relative received power loss relation in Eq. 3 may correspond to the path gain relation according to Eq. 4:
• the radio unit 101 may consider the wireless devices to be relatively far away from the transceiver k and may turn off the transceiver k or reduce output power level for its DL transmissions.
• the received power, or rather path gain, from the wireless device 321 of the transceivers 301 , 302, 303, 304 is denoted g 1 ; g 2 , g 3 , g 4 , respectively.
• the loss in relative combined received power in case the transceiver 304 is turned off may be estimated by the radio unit 101 as:
• the radio unit 101 may turn off the transceiver 304 or reduce output power level for its DL transmissions.
• the radio unit 101 when the at least one first transceiver is turned off, the radio unit 101 turns on the at least one first transceiver in case the determined load of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 in the wireless communications network 100 indicate that one or more wireless devices is approaching the at least one first transceiver. This means that o the radio unit 101 may turn on a transceiver that is currently turned off when the first criterion is no longer considered fulfilled for the transceiver that is currently turned off, i.e. when the second criterion is fulfilled for the transceiver.
• a wireless device which is switched on close to a transceiver that is currently turned off, will not trigger the transceiver to be turned on and 5 the wireless device will not receive any system broadcast information from the
• the wireless device may, for example, receive the system broadcast information from DL transmissions of a neighboring transceiver that is not turned off, whereby the wireless device may instead send a random access signal to the neighboring transceiver. This may trigger the radio unit 101 to turn on the transceiver0 again, since the first load condition may no longer be fulfilled for the transceiver.
• Figure 4 is another flowchart depicting embodiments of a method in a radio unit 101 .
• Figure 4 illustrates an example of actions or operations which may be taken by the radio unit 101 .
• the method may comprise the following actions.
• the radio unit 101 may first identify the dominant transceivers of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 in the wireless communications network 100 by determining a load for each of the transceivers 1 10-1 19. This may be performed as described in Actions 201 -202 with0 reference to Figure 2.
• the radio unit 101 determines if any of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 has a determined load that is below a first determined threshold T-i in the radio unit 101 ; for5 example, the transceiver 1 10 in the load scenario of Figure 1. Action 403
• the radio unit 101 may determine if any adjacent transceivers of the at least one of 5 the transceivers 1 10-1 19 has a determined load that is below a second or third
• the radio unit 101 may determine if the determined loads of the neighboring transceivers 1 1 1 , 1 19 of the transceiver 1 10 are equal to or below the second determined threshold T 2 . Further, the radio unit 101 may determine if the determined loads of the o transceivers 1 12, 1 18 being neighbors to the neighboring transceivers 1 1 1 , 1 19 of the transceiver 1 10 are equal to or below the third determined threshold T 3 .
• the radio unit 101 may estimate the loss in relative combined received power for the at least one of the transceivers 1 10-1 19; for example, the transceiver 1 10 in the load scenario of Figure 1. This may be performed as described in Action 203 with reference to Figure 2. 0 Action 405
• the radio unit 101 may then determine whether the estimated loss in relative combined received power for the at least one of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 is below a fourth determined threshold T 4 in the radio unit 101. 5 Action 406
• the radio unit 101 may turn off the at least one of the transceivers 1 10-1 19; for example, the transceiver 1 10 in the load scenario of Figure 1. 0 Actions 407-408
• the radio unit 101 may continuously check the load conditions for the at least one of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 as described in Actions 402-405 to determine whether these load conditions are still valid. If so, the radio unit 101 may keep the at least one of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 turned off; for example, the transceiver 1 10 in the load scenario of5 Figure 1. Action 408
• the radio unit 101 may turn on the at least one of 5 the transceivers 1 10-1 19.
• the radio unit 101 may comprise the following arrangement depicted in Figure 5.
• FIG. 5 shows a schematic block diagram of embodiments of the radio unit 101 .
• the radio unit 101 may comprise a receiving module 501 , a transmitting module 502, and a processor 510.
• the receiving module 501 which also may be referred to as a receiver or a receiving unit, may be configured to receive signals 5 from the transceivers 1 10-1 19 via the corresponding antenna ports a-j.
• the transceivers 1 10-1 19 may be antennas and/or radio heads, and may be located at specific geographical positions relative to each other.
• the processor 510 which is also referred to as a processing module, a processing unit or a processing circuitry, may also control the receiver 501 and the transmitter 502.
• the processor 810 may be said to comprise one or more of the receiver 501 and the transmitter 502 and and/or perform the function thereof as described below.
• the processor 810 also comprises a determining module 51 15 and a controlling module 512.
• the receiving module 501 is configured to receive measurements from the transceivers 1 10-1 19 on received uplink transmissions from the wireless devices.
• the processor 510 and/or the determining module 51 1 is configured to determine a load based on how many wireless devices that have the transceiver as the transceiver with the0 most relevant measurement for its uplink transmissions.
• the processor 510 and/or the controlling module 512 is configured to control a power level of at least one first transceiver based on at least one of the determined loads for the transceivers 1 10-1 19.
• the most relevant measurement may be one or more of the highest received power, the highest signal-to-noise-ratio, or the highest signal quality.
• the processor 810 and/or the controlling module 512 may be further configured to turn off the at least one first transceiver when a first load criterion is fulfilled, and turn on the at least one first transceiver when a second load criterion is fulfilled.
• the processor 810 and/or the controlling 5 module 512 may be further configured to reduce the output power level for downlink, DL, transmissions of the at least one first transceiver 1 10 when a first load criterion is fulfilled, and increase the output power level for DL transmissions of the at least one first transceiver when a second load criterion is fulfilled.
• the first load criterion may be considered fulfilled o when the determined load for the at least one first transceiver is equal to or below a first determined threshold.
• the second load criterion may be considered fulfilled when the determined load for the at least one first transceiver is above the first determined threshold.
• the first load criterion may be considered fulfilled when the determined load for at least one second transceiver located 5 adjacent to the at least one first transceiver is equal to or below a second determined threshold.
• the second load criterion may be considered fulfilled when the determined load for at least one second transceiver located adjacent to the at least one first transceiver is above the second determined threshold.
• the first load criterion may be considered fulfilled when the determined load for at least0 one third transceiver located adjacent to the at least one second transceiver is equal to or below a third determined threshold.
• the second load criterion may be considered fulfilled when the determined load for at least one third transceiver located adjacent to the at least one second transceiver is above the third determined threshold.
• the first load criterion may be considered fulfilled5 when an estimated loss in relative combined received power of the uplink transmissions from the wireless devices to the transceivers 1 10-1 19 is equal to or below a fourth determined threshold.
• the second load criterion may be considered fulfilled when an estimated loss in relative combined received power of the uplink transmissions from the wireless devices to the transceivers 1 10-1 19 is above the fourth determined0 threshold. It should also be noted that any combination of the first, second, third and fourth thresholds may be used to determine if the first and second criterion is fulfilled.
• the processor 810 and/or the controlling module 512 may be further configured to turn on the at least one first transceiver in case the determined load of the transceivers 1 10-1 19 in the wireless communications network 100 indicate that one or more wireless devices is approaching the at least one first transceiver.
• the embodiments for allocating a subset of transmission resources that are 5 shared between an access link 132, 134 and a back-haul link 131 , 133 may be
• processors such as, e.g. the processor 810 in the first node 1 10, 121 depicted in Figure 8, together with computer program code for performing the functions and actions of the embodiments herein.
• the program code mentioned above may also be provided as a computer program product, for instance in the form of a data o carrier carrying computer program code or code means for performing the embodiments herein when being loaded into the processor 810 in the first node 1 10, 121.
• the computer program code may e.g. be provided as pure program code in the first node 1 10, 121 or on a server and downloaded to the first node 1 10, 121.
• the carrier may be one of an electronic signal, optical signal, radio signal, or computer-readable storage medium, such 5 as, e.g. electronic memories like a RAM, a ROM, a Flash memory, a magnetic tape, a CD-ROM, a DVD, a Blueray disc, etc.
• the first node 1 10, 121 may further comprise a memory 820, which may be referred to or comprise one or more memory modules or units.
• the memory 820 may be arranged to be used to store executable instructions and data to perform the methods0 described herein when being executed in or by the processor 810 of the first node 1 10, 121 .
• the processor 810 and the memory 820 described above may refer to a combination of analog and digital circuits, and/or one or more processors configured with software and/or firmware, e.g. stored in the memory 820, that when executed by the one or more processors, such as, the processor 810,5 cause the one or more processors to perform the method as described above.
• the processor 810 and the memory 820 may also be referred to as processing means.
• One or more of these processors, as well as the other digital hardware, may be included in a single application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or several processors and various digital hardware may be distributed among several separate components, whether0 individually packaged or assembled into a system-on-a-chip (SoC).
• ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
• SoC system-on-a-chip
• some embodiments may comprise a computer program product, comprising instructions which, when executed on at least one processor, e.g. the processor 810, cause the at least one processor to carry out the method for allocating a subset of transmission resources that are shared between an5 access link 132, 134 and a back-haul link 131 , 133.
• some embodiments may further comprise a carrier containing said computer program product, wherein the carrier is one of an electronic signal, optical signal, radio signal, or computer-readable storage medium.
• the common abbreviation "e.g.” which derives from the Latin phrase “exempli gratia,” may be used to introduce or specify a general example or examples of a previously mentioned item, and is not intended to be limiting of such item. If used herein, the common abbreviation “i.e.”, which derives from the Latin phrase “id 5 est,” may be used to specify a particular item from a more general recitation.
• the common abbreviation “etc.”, which derives from the Latin expression “et cetera” meaning “and other things” or “and so on” may have been used herein to indicate that further features, similar to the ones that have just been enumerated, exist.

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